False Positive Results in Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS)

Federal University of São Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Deafness

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00753194

26129

2612

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the rate of false-positive results in Newborn Universal Hearing Screening Programs and it´s possible causes.

Full description

False-positive results in Newborn Hearing Screening(NHS) leads to unnecessary parents anxiety and increase the cost of the procedure before hospital discharge. Getting to know the possible causes will lead to solutions to decrease the number of normal hearing babies that fail NHS with Otoacoustic Emissions.

Enrollment: 1,110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 48 hours old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy newborns

Exclusion criteria

• Risk factors for hearing loss

Trial design

1,110 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

Newborns that show a "Pass" On the newborn hearing screening program before hospital discharge

2

Description:

Newborns that show a "fail" and will be retested in 15 days.